Author Archives: Puni Rajah

Smart cities are ten-a-penny now, with large numbers of the world’s major cities engaged in improving digital services for their citizens. But Singapore is more ambitious. It doesn’t want to be just another smart city; instead, it is working towards becoming the world’s first Smart Nation. Plans for digital identity speeding up Singapore set up

There has been a lot written about how AI will change the world of work. Fewer commentators, however, have set out how it might help governments around the world to achieve more for less. A report by Deloitte on that issue makes some very good points. The potential savings from even simple AI applications could

If you lived in London or Paris ten or twenty years ago and you cycled to work, you were part of a small, elite minority. Taking your life into your hands each day, you would thread your way through traffic jams, perhaps in a filter mask to protect you from the fumes. There was little

A recent report published by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, makes some familiar points and some new ones, many of which are pertinent to cities across the world. For example, the size of the global market for smart systems for transport, energy, healthcare, waste and water has been estimated by Arup, the global

Does ‘online open government’ sound like a tautology or, worse, a myth? As private citizens, we have embraced the way that the internet can empower us as consumers of goods from private companies. Now we’re starting to demand the same thing from the public sector. And slowly but surely, the public sector is starting to

TEDCity2.0 was a day-long event which took place on 20th September 2013. It brought together people interested in the future of cities, including urban planners, politicians, architects and city dwellers, and invited them to open their minds. The curators of the event, Courtney Martin and John Cary, explained in a blog article that they wanted